lidraughts

The Description of lidraughts

Site Editorial Commentary：Play draughts online and offline, with puzzles and game analysis. No ads!

Play international draughts (also known as checkers on a 10x10 board), or explore various draughts variants on an 8x8 board. Enjoy playing online and Offline, challenging other players or testing your skills against the computer.

Built with a passion for draughts, this app is open source and completely free for everyone.

- Play bullet, blitz, classical, and correspondence draughts games.
- Participate in exciting arena tournaments.
- Compete against the computer, both with and without an internet connection.
- Find, follow, and challenge other draughts enthusiasts.
- Track your game statistics to improve your play.
- Explore diverse draughts variants, available both online and offline: Frisian, Russian, Brazilian, Antidraughts, Breakthrough, Frysk!
- Sharpen your skills with draughts puzzles for International, Frisian, and Russian draughts.
- Utilize game analysis with local computer evaluation to understand your moves.
- Use the board editor to set up custom positions and practice specific scenarios.
- Take advantage of server-side computer analysis with move annotations and game summaries.
- Engage in Over The Board (OTB) mode to play offline with friends.
- Utilize the standalone draughts clock with customizable time settings for real-world games.
- Available in 22 languages, making it accessible to a global audience.
- Optimized for both phones and tablets, with support for landscape mode.
- 100% free, without any advertisements, and completely open source!

Just like https://lidraughts.org, this application is open source and respects user freedom. It is entirely free and without ads, now and forever.

Source code of the mobile application: https://github.com/RoepStoep/lidrobile
Source code of the website and server: https://github.com/RoepStoep/lidraughts

The computer analysis is possible thanks to Fabien Letouzey's open source draughts engine Scan 3.1: https://github.com/rhalbersma/scan

Many words of thanks must be expressed to the lichess developers, whose open source work made all of this possible:
- Vincent Velociter (https://github.com/veloce), lead developer of the lichess app which was forked to create the lidraughts app
- Thibault Duplessis (https://github.com/ornicar), creator of lichess.org, without whom there would be no lidraughts.org in the first place
- All others who contributed over the years, too many to mention